Electing the Saboteur

The great crime of McCain and the Gang of 14 was that it signaled to the Senator and the People of the USA that the Republican leadership won in the 2004 holding 55 votes would not be able to get even a majority vote on its reforms -- the first and most important of which was to end the threat of judicial filibuster. But that was only one of many forms of assistance that McCain gave to frustrate the agenda for America that true conservatives and true Republicans held out in 2003 and 2004. Just as Republicans wanted to engage in great political even historic contests in the Senate, McCain grabbed the spotlight for himself and make that 2005-2007 term so full of possibility a Republican Titanic.